I do think that it could be converted from a 10 episode show of ~20 minutes per episode to a 5 episode show with ~40 minutes per episode.
I also noticed toward the beginning that there were WAY too many scenes where people were telling Lawson “so are you going to call the Empire now?” and then he explained like 3-4 times why he wasn’t going to. So there’s definitely a few little scenes that can be trimmed here and there.
Yeah, given Lawson’s eventual fate, his scenes could be a pretty good place to trim, although I suspect his son’s relationship with him will end up being pretty important to Devon’s inevitable romance with the kid.
Although who knows. That entire plot line might end up going nowhere interesting